Scenic route
Brockenbahn
Wernigerode → Brocken · Germany
- Distance
- 34 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h 45 min
- Top speed
- 40 km/h
- Operator
- Harzer Schmalspurbahnen
- Train
- Class 99 2-10-2T steam
- Countries
- Germany
- In service since
- 1899
Metre-gauge steam still storms year-round to the 1,141 m Brocken — Goethe’s witches’ mountain, sealed off as a Soviet listening post until 1989.
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